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Living Space Environmental Control Lab
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The lab solves heat and moisture problems to protect people's daily lives and cultural properties.
AboutAbout the lab
Planet-friendly architecture that protects everyday life and culture.
The lab studies methods of regulating buildings and their surrounding environments to realize architecture where people can live in health, comfort, and peace of mind.
While taking the global environment into account, the lab focuses mainly on heat and moisture problems related to buildings and cultural properties.
It also studies how to preserve and open to the public cultural heritage such as mural paintings, burial mounds (kofun), and cliff-face Buddhas (magaibutsu) without damaging them.
Targeting a wide variety of buildings in Japan and abroad, the lab carries out everything from field surveys to calculation, analysis, and experiments.
Key terms
- Thermal environment
- The environment, determined by air temperature, humidity, air movement, solar radiation, and so on, that affects how hot or cold people feel
- Vernacular architecture
- Buildings constructed using the local climate, local materials, and traditional techniques
- Magaibutsu (cliff-face Buddhas)
- Buddhist statues carved directly into natural rock or cliff surfaces
ResearchResearch themes
Using the fundamental principles and applied technologies of engineering, the lab studies how to regulate buildings and their surrounding environments to realize architecture where people can live healthily and comfortably with consideration for the global environment, as well as how to preserve cultural heritage and open it to the public.
*Illustrative imageIndoor Environments and Energy Saving in Homes
Energy use in buildings increases year after year. To reduce energy use without lowering quality of life, the lab investigates the actual energy consumption and thermal environments of houses and buildings, and studies the use of natural energy, energy-saving methods, and the relationship between thermal environments and health.
*Illustrative imageIndoor Environments of Vernacular Architecture
The lab conducts field surveys mainly of traditional buildings in Japan and abroad. To help pass on buildings that make use of regional climate, materials, and traditional techniques, it evaluates them from the viewpoint of indoor environment control and explores ways to improve them.
*Illustrative imageComfortable and Healthy Sleep and Bathing
For healthy, comfortable sleep and safe, comfortable bathing, it is important to keep the thermal environment of bedrooms and bathrooms appropriate. The lab develops mathematical models that help understand and predict bodily responses such as body temperature, sweat rate, and blood pressure.
*Illustrative imageEnvironments for Displaying Cultural Properties While Protecting Them
Cultural properties such as mural paintings deteriorate under the influence of the surrounding temperature, humidity, and air when they are stored, displayed, or transported. The lab studies environmental control methods that ensure the preservation of cultural properties while making them open to the public.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorDaisuke Ogura
- Associate ProfessorChiemi Iba
- Assistant ProfessorNobumitsu Takatori
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Interior of a traditional Japanese house” TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋) / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Indoor Environments and Energy Saving in Homes: “Coibentazione - thermal insulation icon” Tommaso.sansone91 / CC0 (cropped)
- Indoor Environments of Vernacular Architecture: “Toda Hut” Pratheepps / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Comfortable and Healthy Sleep and Bathing: “Nabburg Neusath Freilandmuseum Schallerhof -20190823-RM-144048” Ermell / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Environments for Displaying Cultural Properties While Protecting Them: “Blauer Drache” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
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